The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-10-27

by Storm. Miss Hyde turned out to be a
regular little demon. How l was ever
idiotic enough to go into the scheme
never yet can understand. She seemed
to have bewitched me into it. Very
shortly after we were ON the road she
raised her terms again and again, under
threats of exposure. From the first mo-
ment she hated poor Mrs. Jekyll and her
hatred grew as time went on. She seemed
maddened that another woman got the
credit for the talents she possessed, and
at last began to fear that in one of her
moments of frenzy she would murder her.
The louder the applause the more she
CRASHED her teeth and swore-for she
could swear like whole company of
troopers. Curiously enough the angrier
she was, the better she sang. l had
some control over her. but l saw that it
was daily lessening, and / resolved that
as soon as our sour was over l would cut
the whole business and not bring Nine.
Trillena out in London as l had intended.
"One night we gave concert in -.
1t was a shocking bad night, and fortu-
nately we had not large audience. Be-
fore the concert commenced / heard
shrek after shrek in Nine. Trillena's
room. rushed in and found the little
demon trying to strangle her. The floor
was strewn with flowers. 1t seems that
some one sent handsome basket of flow
ers to Mime. Trillena, and this gift so in
furiated Miss Hyde that she followed the
bearer of the basket into the room, tore
the flowers to pieces and then attacked
Nine. Trillena. l had an awful time get
ting the little satyr quoted, and as it was
she went to her place white with rage.
She sang superbly, and the audience went
wild and called for an encore. When
Madame took her place at the stand and
I sat down to the piano we heard a muir
muir of horror from the audience. I
looked upon the stage and was paralyzed
to see my Miss Hyde waddling toward the
footlights, her eyes swapping fire and her
long bony fingers crooked like talons.
Nine. Trillena gave one look at her and
sank on the stage in faint.
Look at her. screamed the dwarf
She is an impostor. 1 am Nine. Tril-
lena. Listen and will sing you the en-
CORE BY this time, as you folks say in
America, the audience had begun to STAN
pede. This made her stamp with rage
She shrieked out cite, then grasped her
throat with those skeleton fingers of hers
Her eyes were the eyes of a maniac. 1t
was only too evident that she had given
way to her insane temper once too often
Her voice was gone. With an unearthly
yell she ran from the stage and out the
door into the pelting storm. They found
her raving on the street a mile away and
took her to the hospital. She was pro-
nounced insane, as she constantly claimed
in voice that was hoarse croak that
she was the real Nine. Trillena: She died
of the fever that followed, a week after,
and it was announced that Nine Trillena
was so overcome by the whole shocking
affair that she intended to retire perma-
nently from the stage.
81 see that waiter has mistaken my
gesture and brought another bottle. All!
well, l think we ought to manage it. 1t
is bad luck to send back bottle after it
has been put on ice. You see we stage
folks have our little superstitions. Here's
to you. Luke Sharp in Detroit Free
Press.